Theater District

Retired BPD detective seeks new career as club manager

adamg — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:06:43 +0000

The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let Miller Thomas, Jr. become manager of Cure, 246 Tremont St.

Thomas told the board today he spent 33 years on the police force, more than 25 of them as a detective. If approved, Thomas would join another former BPD detective as a Theater District manager - Thomas Montgomery, who now runs Venu and Rumor on Warrenton Street.

Theater District club: Don't blame us for patron who shot four people outside at closing

adamg — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:35:21 +0000

Venu manager Tom Montgomery with map showing distance between shooter and club.

UPDATE: Board agrees with club; issues no penalty.

The Boston Licensing Board decides Thursday whether to order a rollback in hours for Venu, a Warrenton Street club that already had a long list of complaints against it when a man police say was a patron got a gun and started blasting away at two gang rivals down the street.

Night of violence in the Theater District: Four shot

adamg — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:41:33 +0000

11/18/11 - 2:00 am

Boston Police report four men were shot outside Venu on Warrenton Street just as the club was getting out for the night. The victims, in their 20s and 30s, were taken to local hospitals and are expected to survive.

Police say officers arrested a woman near the scene on a charge of illegal weapon possession, but that she did not appear to be involved in the shootings.

Both clubs, which have the same owner, have had a series of violent outbreaks over the past couple of years that have led to license suspensions by both the Boston Licensing Board and the Mayor's Office of Consumer Affairs and Licensing.

Club manager: Life would be a lot simpler without foreign students

adamg — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 21:01:27 +0000

Rumor, on Warrenton Street, had to explain to the Boston Licensing Board why it was cited by police for having a customer smoking inside during an inspection on July 3 and why a 19-year-old was allowed to get a drink before slipping on a step and cracking his head open on July 20.

Apartment building proposal of the day (part II)

JohnAKeith — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:34:26 +0000

On the heels of today's announcement that Anthony's Pier 4 is slated to become a mixed-use, 21-story, high-rise development that will include retail and residential (apartments) comes news that an empty parking lot near Chinatown and the Theater District is the site of a proposed 29-story apartment building.

The Boston Herald, Banker & Tradesman, and Boston Business Journal coverage.

For a historic view of the "Hinge Block" and previous plans for that area, check out the ArchBoston.com forum.

http://www.archboston.org/community/showthread.php?t=1280&page=6

Image above from me.

Early morning stabbing outside Theater District pizza place sends man to hospital in critical condition

adamg — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 04:12:21 +0000

2/16/11 - 12:30 am

Police investigate stabbing; little yellow cone marks the location.

Courtney Sacco reports a man, 23, was stabbed around 12:30 this morning outside New York Pizza, 224 Tremont St. Workers at the pizza place, spotting "blood squirting up the left side of his chest," grabbed towels and tried to slow the bleeding, according to a police report.

Sacco reports the man was taken to Tufts Medical Center with what initially appeared to be a fatal stab wound. Police are looking for three possible suspects, one a black male in his early 20s who fled in a black car.

Photo copyright Courtney Sacco. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

City vows crackdown on violence at Theater District clubs

adamg — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 01:41:34 +0000

The city licensing office has ordered an 11-day suspension of the entertainment license for Venu, following a November melee at the Warrenton Street club that took cops from across the city - and repeated shots of pepper spray - to break up.

The Boston Licensing Board - a separate state agency - could add even more time to the punishment following its own hearing today. Acting board Chairman Michael Connolly noted similar problems at Rumor, which shares the same building and owners with Venu, and said he's worried what would happen if two of the four large clubs in the area have violent outbursts at the same time, because Boston Police might not have the resources to quickly put down a multi-club disturbance.

"Boy, oh, boy, I'm more concerned than I've ever been, and I've been on this board for ten years, that this thing is just going to explode one night," Connolly told club officials. "Structurally, the concern goes well beyond any one establishment. A potential tinderbox exists there. This thing could just blow sky high ... if things get out of hand on any one night."

Theater District club buys metal detectors to ferret out crotch knives

adamg — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:21:00 +0000

Managers at Rumor, 100 Warrenton St., say they immediately began using metal detectors after a bouncer was stabbed during a brawl in the club this past July, with a knife one patron apparently smuggled in under his junk.

New Theater District club: We're not racist, event organizers were just disorganized

adamg — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:35:31 +0000

The Harvard Crimson gets the Cure Lounge's version of events at that post-Game black alumni event from PRmeister George Regan: Basically, there were troublemaking gang bangers trying to get in, and it's the alumni group's fault for not getting party-goers to bring Harvard or Yale IDs.

Regan says the club has good reason to avoid trouble - it got into a lot of it under its old name: Aria.

Five arrested in closing-time melee at Theater District club

adamg — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 19:07:16 +0000

11/28/10 - 2:00 am

Boston Police report arresting two Bostonians and three Randolph residents in a donnybrook that just would not stop around 2 a.m. on Sunday at Club Venu, 100 Warrenton St..

Black Harvard alums claim Boston club shut down rather than let them celebrate the Game

adamg — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 20:59:51 +0000

Jezebel posts e-mail from the leaders of a black alumni group who say managers at a new lounge in the Theatre District were worried that, you know, the all black crowd would naturally attract gangbangers:

Support for the Laramie Project in Boston

adamg — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 19:41:45 +0000

BostonTweet posted this video from today's protest at Emerson against the cretins from Kansas - who never even showed up.

Four women charged with post-clubbing robbery and beatdown

adamg — Mon, 24 May 2010 01:40:26 +0000

Boston Police report a woman sitting in her car outside 230 Tremont St. around 2 a.m. on Saturday when a woman allegedly reached through one of her windows and grabbed her wallet:

As a result, the victim quickly exited her car in an effort to retrieve her property. When she exited her car and confronted the group, the victim says members of the group began kicking and punching her.

Charged with larceny from a person and assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon: Jan Braggs, 20, Rachel Green, 20, Shakeem Davis, 18, and Raquel Lamons, 20.

Innocent, etc.

Winthrop man wanted for Theater District kidnapping and armed robbery

adamg — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:57:33 +0000

1/9/10 - 10:00 pm

Boston Police charge that David McKenny, 44, of Winthrop, forced a man at gunpoint into his car at Stuart and Tremont streets on Jan. 9, then used his gun to force the man to hand over his money.

Police say the man was then dumped out of the car near Washington and East Springfield streets.

McKenny is 5'7", weighs about 215 lbs. and has black hair and brown eyes.

If you know where he is, contact detectives at 617-343-5619 or drop an anonymous tip by calling 800-494-TIPS or texting TIP to CRIME.

Mob attacks man in Theater District; slowest runner nabbed

adamg — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:30:58 +0000

4/17/09 - 10:25 pm

Boston Police report officers came upon a group of people beating and kicking a man on the ground outside Boylston Place around 2:25 this morning. On seeing the law, the attackers scurried away, but police say officers managed to chase after and grab one of them.

Julio Labrana, 20, was charged with assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon (a shod foot).

Innocent, etc.